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Thoughts On Necessity Of Chinese Characters And Words Expansion, Nanhua Xi

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

With the development of society, the amount of information that needs to be expressed is huge. Since new information, technologies, and objects are constantly emerging in large quantity, neither expressing them nor naming them is a simple problem and requires a large number of suitable vocabulary, as well as new words. Regarding these issues, in this article the author thought of the necessity of Chinese word expansion.